Phlebotomine sandflies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Governador Valadares, a transmission area for American tegumentary leishmaniasis in State of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Ricardo Andrade Barata²  Gustavo Fontes Paz¹  Marcela Cardoso Bastos¹  Roberta Christiane Oliveira Andrade¹  Daniela Campos Mendes De Barros¹  Fabiana Oliveira Lara E Silva¹  Érika Monteiro Michalsky¹  Aimara Da Costa Pinheiro¹  Edelberto Santos Dias¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Federal do Vale do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri Departamento de Ciências Biológicas Diamantina MG

关键词: American tegumentary leishmaniasis;    Phlebotominae;    Lutzomyia;    Sandflies;    Governador Valadares;    Leishmaniose tegumentar americana;    Phlebotominae;    Lutzomyia;    Flebotomíneos;    Governador Valadares;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0037-86822011005000003

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

INTRODUCTION: A study on the phlebotomine sandfly fauna was carried out in an endemic area for American tegumentary leishmaniasis in the municipality of Governador Valadares, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. METHODS: Captures were undertaken using HP light traps in four districts, on three nights per month, for one year (from January to December 2008). Correlations between climatic factors (temperature, relative air humidity and rainfall) and the numbers of sandflies collected was observed. RESULTS: 5,413 phlebotomine specimens were caught and were identified as belonging to 12 species. Of these specimens, 2,851 (52%) were females and 2,562 (48%) were males. CONCLUSIONS: Lutzomyia intermedia predominated (29.9% of the species caught), thus suggesting that they were responsible for transmission of American tegumentary leishmaniasis, together with L. whitmani, which was also found in the area (4.3%). The presence of L. longipalpis (11.9%), the main vector for visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil, is an important finding, which makes rigorous entomological surveillance of the area necessary.

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